Ointment



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. HALL, OF NORA SPRINGS, IOIVA.

OINTMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,940, dated June 26,1883.

' Application filed May 3, 1883. (N0 specimens.)

ounces; oil of amber, two ounces; Venice turpentine, five ounces; oil ofcitronella, (for perfume,) one-half ounce; mutton-tallow, seven pounds.

All of the above ingredients, except the 1nutton-tallow, are firstplaced in a bottle or other suitable receptacle, and are warmed orheated and thoroughly mixed by. agitation or other means. The tallow isplaced in a suitable re= ceptacle, and is melted over a fire, when thecompound formed of the other ingredients is added, and the wholepreparation is then ready for use, as hereinafter specified.

In preparing my improved medicated pads the sheep-skin or other materialof which the face of the pad is to be formed is first rubbed andwrinkled to render it soft and pliable, and

one of its surfaces can then be colored with aniline or other suitablecoloring material, so that it will present a neat appearance when madeinto the pad. The sheep-skin is now ready to be medicated, and thepreparation is applied to both sides of the same by rubbing with a cloththat has been dipped in the compound while it is'still warm. Thecompound will soak into the sheepskin and will thoroughly impregnate thesame, while a portion of the compound will remain 011 the surface. Thisportion of the compound on the surface of the sheep-skin is then heatedinto the latter by holding the skin near a fire, after which it isrendered soft and pliable by rubbing, and is wiped off with a dry cloth.The sheepskin is now ready to be made in a sweat-pad, so that it willcome against the body of the horse, the pad being filled with hair inthe usual manner.

The turpentine in this improved compound assists in drying the same intothe pad, and the mutton-tallow is of a hard, cool, healingnature. Theoils have a soothing and healing effect on the skin of the horse andsoften the tallow, so that a little of the compound will rub off fromthe pad onto the sore or shoulder of the animal from time to time, andthe animal heat will always keep the pad soft and pliable, so that itwill be smooth and slippery and wil move on the shoulder of the horsewithout in ritating the same in any way, while the compound which willrub off will heal and cure the sore or prevent the formation of one.

The temperature at which the compound is heated into the pad is ofcourse greater than any temperature that it will be subjected to, andthe compound will not therefore be too rapidly drawn out of the pad.

The pad can be readily cleaned by washing off with a cloth saturatedwith water,

I wish it to be understood that I herein make no claim to a padmedicated as above described, my claim being only for theherein-described compound for medicating sweat-pads, as set;

forth.

I am aware that most of the ingredients comprising'my improved compoundfor medicating sweat-pads have been used before in ointme'nts, 820. Itherefore wish to be understood as claiming specifically only thecombination of all the ingredients herein set forth.

I claim as my invention The herein-described preparation for'medieatingsweat-pads for horsecollars, 00., consisting of mutton-tallow,linseed-oil, skunks oil, oil origanum, oil amber, Venice turpentine, andoil of cit ronella, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony'that I- claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

cnonen WILLIAM HALL.

Witnesses: F. M. HUBBARD, T. E. BRYAN.

